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掛鉤；掛釘
A peg is a small hook or knob that is attached to a wall or door and is used for hanging things on.
例句
His work jacket hung on the peg in the kitchen.
他的工作服掛在廚房里的掛鉤上。
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（晾衣用的）衣夾
A peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
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（金屬或木制的）銷釘，楔子，栓
A peg is a small piece of wood or metal that is used for fastening something to something else.
例句
He builds furniture using wooden pegs instead of nails.
他用木楔子取代釘子制作家具。
...the noise of the hammer striking the steel pegs.
錘子敲擊鋼栓的噪音
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VERB
用銷釘（或楔子、木栓）固定
If you peg something somewhere or peg it down, you fix it there with pegs.
例句
...trying to peg a double sheet on a washing line on a blustery day...
大風天試圖用衣夾把雙人床單固定在晾衣繩上
Peg down netting over the top to keep out leaves.
用銷釘在頂上加固防護網(wǎng)，防止葉子落入。
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VERB
限定（價格、數(shù)量等）；把…固定在一定水平；使與…掛鉤
If a price or amount of something is pegged at a particular level, it is fixed at that level.
例句
Its currency is pegged to the dollar...
其貨幣與美元掛鉤。
UK trading profits were pegged at ￡40 million...
英國的貿(mào)易利潤固定在4,000萬英鎊。
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PHRASE
殺…的威風；挫…的銳氣
If you say that someone should be brought down a peg or be taken down a peg, you mean that they should be made to realize that they are not so important or wonderful as they think they are.
例句
We thought it was time they were brought down a peg or two...
我們認為是時候煞煞他們的囂張氣焰了。
We'd have liked to see her taken down a peg, but not this way.
我們樂意看到她殺威風，但不是用這種方法。
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PHRASE
（衣服）非定制的，成品的
Off-the-peg clothes are made in large numbers and sent to shops, not made specially for a particular person.
例句
...an off-the-peg two-piece suit...
兩件套西服成衣
Instead of dining in top restaurants and wearing expensive suits, he likes to eat hamburgers and buys clothes off the peg.
比起穿著昂貴的套裝到高檔飯店吃飯，他更喜歡吃漢堡、買成衣。
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PHRASE
方枘圓鑿；格格不入
If you describe someone as a square peg in a round hole, you mean that they are in a situation or doing something that does not suit them at all.
例句
Taylor is clearly the wrong man for the job — a square peg in a round hole.
泰勒明顯不適合做這項工作——簡直就是方枘圓鑿。
Noun
1. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
2. small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
3. informal terms of the leg;
"fever left him weak on his sticks"4. a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
5. regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
6. a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
Verb
1. succeed in obtaining a position;
"He nailed down a spot at Harvard"2. pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into into
3. fasten or secure with a wooden pin;
"peg a tent"4. stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations;
"The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"